Rumor: Michael Bisping vs. Denis Kang In The Works For UFC 105
Rumors are making the rounds today that a middleweight bout between Michael Bisping and Denis Kang is in the works to co-headline UFC 105 on November 14 in Manchester, England.
Bisping (17-2), who had been approached about fighting Wanderlei Silva in the UFC 105 main event before Silva recently underwent surgery to repair a deviated septum, is coming off a devastating knockout loss to Dan Henderson at UFC 100 last month, his first loss since moving down to middleweight in 2008. The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner is 7-2 in the UFC, including recent wins at 185-pounds over Charles McCarthy, Jason Day, and Chris Leben prior to the loss to Henderson.
The former PRIDE and one-time DREAM fight Kang (32-11-1) was upset by Alan Belcher in his UFC debut in January, but bounced back with a unanimous decision victory over Xavier Foupa-Pokam in April in his most-recent fight.
UFC 105 is expected to air on tape-delay on Spike TV and will be headlined by a lightweight championship matchup between title-holder BJ Penn and challenger Diego Sanchez.
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Pictured: Michael Bisping
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kang UD would be my guess
I think this would be a toss-up, Kang hasn’t looked good in quite sometime and I’ve never been overly impressed with Bisping. I think it will go to a decision but it’s a toss up on who gets the nod, IMO.
Kang has not looked impressive as of late but I think this will be a great test for both fighters. Also, very interesting to learn that Wandy was just getting surgery for a deviated septum and not sanding off a pound of bone off where his eyebrows are.
first off I did call this a few days ago (yay me, jk)
I think this is a good match for both Kang and Bisping, it allows Kang to get in there and try to get back to form against a hungry fighter in Bisping, who the UFC won’t be cutting anytime soon… Kang should get through this bout and win either by sub or ud.. Bisping on the other hand should be very thankful that he is not facing the AxeMurderer this card, and he better be looking to take this fight really seriously for I don’t think that he can cut to 170 and lose there too..
I just think that with the right guidence that Bisping could be better than what he displays, his ego is too big for his actual skill set imo and not taking anything away from the guys skills they just aren’t top knotch rightnow, he is good but not as good as he thinks he is..
This fight is going to tell us alot about Bisping and well Kang too, if Dennis goes out there and gets destroyed he won’t be part of the roster much longer, people have been waiting for the Kang of old to show up and well his demons have gotten the better of him for sometime now and that is truly unfortunate, kinda reminds me of what Belfort went through for the longest time..
I think this will be a good fight and Kang will hunt down and consistantly beat on Michael for 15 minutes but hey thats just the way I see that shhhhh going down
Good call FR. I think that Bisping needs to branch out from the Wolveslair (both him and Rampage actually). Not to take anything away from the guys in Europe but they are missing a key element in their training: wrestling. It’s a great base for MMA and without you will have a long disappointing career. The people in Europe are at a disadvantage because over here we have high school and college wrestling programs that have produced some of the best fighters in the world.
Too true, without Wrestling backgrounds I often cry at how disapointing B.J Penn, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida, Wanderlei Silva, Damian Maia, and GSP’s careers have become. Ohh, shudder.
i agreed with everything until the last statement…and you were doing so well!
We’ve discussed the weakness of the Euro-trained MMA fighters both here in the commentaries and over in the forum until we were blue in the face, and thats ground-fighting. Whether it be wrestling or submission grappling, way too many of these guys who come from the kickboxing ranks haven’t a clue of how to avoid getting grounded and pounded, or hooked and submitted.
Of course that is a generalization, and there are exceptions to every rule, but for the most part guys from Europe and the UK are going to always be at a disadvantage when it comes to the ground game…
I agree, that ‘ground’ disadvantage was ‘blatantly’ obvious during the course of TUF 9 when the poor o’l UK Kickboxers were destroyed by the Team USA’s Wrestling skills…this ain’t UFC 1 era, having an amateur Wrestling background aint the ‘be all, end all of MMA’, that’s why the current UFC champs, with the exception of a much maligned former NCAA Champ, are a Karate guy, a Muay Thai/BJJ guy, a complete MMA guy with no Amateur wrestling background, and a BJJ guy.
Bigmouth,
You claimed that the Euro’s ground disadvantage isn’t so blatant then proceeded to point out that all but one champion (Machida) are much acclaimed for their ground skills. Machida, however, is actually well versed in both wrestling and BJJ, though he is mostly known for his Karate.
As far as GSP not having an amateur wrestling background, maybe he didn’t come from an amateur wrestling background, but he has trained for years now with the Canadian National wrestling team, and has the best wrestling takedowns in MMA. Even if that’s not his background, it’s still important to get that top level training. The Europeans may be training in wrestling, and other ground arts, but when you’re training with other people that are also not so great at it, you won’t become great. Iron sharpens Iron, that’s why GSP trains with top wrestlers, and with Jackson’s camp. That’s why A. Silva, Machida, dos Santos, and Big Nog all train together, they will get better by training with good partners.
When people slate Euro-Fighters ‘ground game’, they mean Amateur Wrestling, not BJJ/Judo/Catch/Whatever. I’m just revolting against this ‘Wrestling background is Everything’ thinking that all the fighters I mentioned, GSP is a prime example, have disproved.
One thing about this match, it probably saves Bisping from another concussion.
Kang has good enough stand-up and enough power to ko Bisping for the second time in a row. Bisping is a techical striker but you can spot his weaknesses a mile away and he likes to back up and move in throwing jabs which has made him predictable plus when he does back up he puts his hands down which can cost him again in this fight. Kang has an all around decent game and IMO may beat the crap out of Bisping, Bisping is an ok fighter that still has a lot of developing to do as where Kang is very experienced and IMO has a the advantage wherever the fight goes because i would say that Kangs weakness is in the sub game which Bisping has none.
To be honest i didn’t think it mattered who Bisping face next, he’s now in a place where the UFC isn’t going to give him gimme fights anymore he’s now going to face good fighter’s which will only make him berrer BUT he’ll have to get beat up a few more times to realize that.
I like Kang and hope he does well but he needs to take advantage of the fact that he is going to fight a name like Bisping and possibly can dramatically become a contender with a win oveer Bisping.
I’m probably in the minority here, but I think this is a good fight for Bisping, in that its winnable. Bisping losing in the UK to someone at Kang’s level just doesn’t seem to likely to me, but I could be wrong.
Like to see mcfedries punch a hole through bisping.
FR, Yup dude you called it and ever since you came up with that match i was hella hoping it happened and it dude! Or atleast it’s “in the works”. I think this is a great matchup for kang. Although he imo got caught by belcher(lucky
), he was whoopin on him. He’s imo a great talent and pretty well rounded. I for one am a fan of him and his game, especially because he’s @ mw which needs some more well rounded fighters. Bisping is pretty quick on his feet but doesn’t have much else to offer. He has trouble with aggressive fighters and that’s why kang is a good match up for him. Kang by tko round 1 or 2!
i so gree man mcfedries has some of the best standup in the world
Heavy handed? Yes.
Best stand up in the world? Not even close. Both Nate Quarry and Patrick Cote have TKO’d him.
Didn’t mean to sound like a d|ck, Petterson, it was just a bold statement on your part.
man he was never tko’d by nate quarry you imagined thatquarry won due to exaustion and the other thing he couldn’t train for that cote fight and was caught not to mention he has improved much since than and cote has some very serious stand up skills himself, i really to beleive mcfedries has some of the best standu in the world man, it is a bold statemnt that not everyone would agree with but beleive me mcfedries seems to has some sort of gift for stand up.
my brother has a deviated septim as far as i know once that is fixed if he gets hit in the nose afterwards he can suffer serious damage, this may actually lead to wanderlai’s retirement
thanks for that
I see kang out-wrestling and controlling bisbing for the majority of the fight for a decision the like belcher fight before he got guillotined
I forgave Bisbing all his past transgressions when he got his medicine via GOODNIGHT and one to grow on. So I’m kinda glad he escaped the Axe Murderers wrath. I have this fight as really close to being evenly matched with Kang having a heavy exp advantage, and the BJJ blackbelt thing gives him an edge too. Bisping could probably rock dudes socks off strictly on the feet (well its definitely possible) but if Kang is smart enough to sweep then its curtains, its coitans I tell ya!!